[wideminded]

Big deal.....so did I. I got it as a Christmas present when I was a kid and was totally bored with it in about an hour.

To each his own. I found it fascinating and played with it for a very long time. The reason it survived for so long is that many kids thought it was one of the great toys.

[edpc]

It would depend a lot on the timing, I believe. For me, it was tough for anything to compete with the Atari and Star Wars items received that same year.